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Seams on a baseball shift its trajectory by unexpectedly large amount

When a baseball is tilted and spinning just right, its raised, hand-stitched seams skew the process by which its wake is created and radically shift its trajectory in the air

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Quantum computer sets record on path towards error-free calculations

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IBM's quantum computers like Condor and Heron must be kept in an elaborate device called Quantum System Two which keeps them extremely cold

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IBM’s 'Condor' quantum computer has more than 1000 qubits

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The wonder particle: How axions could solve more than just dark matter

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The wonder particle: How axions could solve more than just dark matter

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Illustration of an ultra-high-energy cosmic ray hitting Earth

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A mysterious, incredibly energetic cosmic ray has smashed into Earth

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Lasers fired at crystals could uncover quantum nature of the vacuum

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The international space station

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Ultracold atoms in space will let us stress test Einstein's relativity

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An artist's impression of three merging black holes

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Why the quantum universe is weirder than you think

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Quantum batteries could charge better by breaking rules of causality

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Six laser beams cool and trap atoms before sending them into the interferometer

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World's most sensitive force sensor measures in ‘quectonewtons’

The quantum behaviours of extremely cold rubidium atoms can be used to detect forces smaller than a tenth of what is needed to lift a single electron

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Quantum flywheel could be fashioned from super-sized charged atoms

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The physicist trying to create space-time from scratch

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Is space-time quantum? Six ways to unpick the fabric of the universe

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Record-breaking quantum computer has more than 1000 qubits

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